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2023 Best Value Information Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$8,534 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$28,266 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Information Science Undergraduate Certificate School for You

Information Science is the most popular major in Maryland with 3,677 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

Today's computer science students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Computer Science Degree Search has created the Best Value Information Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maryland to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Maryland to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate programs for IS students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Information Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maryland

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for IS majors pursuing a undergraduate certificate.

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Information Science

Our analysis found University of Maryland Global Campus to be the best value school for information science students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Maryland. Located in the suburb of Adelphi, UMGC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UMGC are $7,704 a year. After completing their Undergraduate Certificate, IS graduates from UMGC carry an average student debtload of $24,066.

UMGC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Information Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list.

Read full report on Information Science at University of Maryland Global Campus

#2

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Baltimore. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Information Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list. UB is a small public school located in the city of Baltimore.

UB undergraduate students pay an average of $9,364 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UB not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Information Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maryland list.

Read full report on Information Science at University of Baltimore

Best Value Information Science Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Information Science Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 1,560
New York 2,210
New Jersey 856
District of Columbia 180
Delaware 32

Information Science is one of 10 different types of computer science programs to choose from.

IS Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Information Science 18,325

Related Major Annual Graduates
Computer Information Systems 88,434
Computer Science 59,565
Information Technology 40,555
Computer Systems Networking 14,700
Computer Software & Applications 14,336

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to The Opte Project.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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